Vote for the southwestern Illinois Boys Basketball Player of the Week Feb. 14-19
Vote for the Belleville News-Democrat’s Boys Prep of the Week. Poll closes at 11:59 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 24. To vote again, hit refresh.
Want to nominate an athlete? The BND Athlete of the Week highlights high school varsity boys and girls basketball players who put in outstanding performances from the week prior to the opening of the poll. If you want to suggest someone to be included, send an email to Garen Vartanian at gvartanian@bnd.com.
Please include the athlete’s name, school, class, position, and applicable game performance statistics. Coaches must be willing to verify information.
To be clear, this poll is not scientific. In fact, we invite you to vote as many times as you want. It’s all for fun, BND readers. People also may submit the same athlete from week to week.
We are planning to post the results later this week after the poll closes.
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Here are this week’s nominees:
Daylen Byrd, Belleville West High School, sophomore, G. Scored 13 points in a loss to Belleville East. Averaging 11.8 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.
Cameron Haag, Mater Dei High School, senior, G. Scored 16 points in a loss to Springfield Lanphier and helped the Knights to a win against Granite City. Averaging 9.8 points per game.
Byron Jones, Belleville East High School, senior, F. Scored 17 points and collected 14 rebounds in a win against Belleville West. Averaging 10.6 points and 6.5 rebounds per game.
Jake Ottensmeier, Highland High School, sophomore, G. Scored 17 points in a win against Civic Memorial and 17 points in a win against Gibault, which included drilling a shot from beyond half court at the halftime buzzer. Averaging 14.5 points per game.
Jordan Pickett, Belleville East High School, junior, G. Scored 26 points in a win against Belleville West. Averaging 19.5 points and 5.4 rebounds per game.
Cole Stuart, Freeburg High School, sophomore, G. Scored 21 points in a win against Columbia and 7 points in a loss to Althoff. Averaging 9.3 points and nearly 2 assists per game.
Tray Swygeart, Collinsville High School, senior, G. Scored 17 points in a win against Edwardsville and 8 points in a win against Alton. Averaging 11.8 points and 6.6 rebounds per game.